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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WEATHER Matches Found: 276 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "A TROT, AND A CANTER, A GALLOP, AND OVER", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "out of the saddle, and roll in the clover" Subject(s): Weather A CHRONIC CONDITION, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Berkeley did not foresee such misty weather Subject(s): Fear; Landscape; Weather A CLIMATIC MADRIGAL, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is time to go a-maying Last Line: When we have such splendid sleighing! Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Weather A COURTYARD THAW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was strong enough today Subject(s): Winter; Weather A HISTORY OF WEATHER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the kind of spring morning - candid sunlight Subject(s): Weather A HOOSIER CALENDAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bleak january! Cold as fate Last Line: Recollections. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Weather A MEMORY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is just the weather, a wet may and blowing Last Line: "god send fine weather to carry home the sheaves!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Fathers; God; Memory; Piety; Trust; Weather; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A RAINY DAY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is my dream. To have you on a day Last Line: Books, and the dear companionship of you! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Friends, Fair-weather A SONG OF THE WEATHER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart of the world beats aloof from our lives Last Line: He gave me the sceptre; and shall I not reign? Subject(s): Weather A WEATHER PROPHET, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun as clear as a raindrop of fire slipt Last Line: Home. Subject(s): Drowning; Prophecy & Prophets; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weather; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips A WEATHER RULE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If the evening's red and the morning gray Last Line: The lamb and the ewe will go wet to bed Subject(s): Weather A WET EVENING, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silvern circle of this summer lake Last Line: With morn may kindle again. Subject(s): Harvest; Mist; Rain; Water; Weather A WIND OF CLEAR WEATHER IN ENGLAND, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what a miracle wind is this Last Line: His narrow road -- the open sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Weather ADVANCES, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seventy wingbeats Subject(s): Weather; Time; Nature; Mind, The AGNOSTIC TO MYSTIC, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does it matter to you whether heaven or god Last Line: Sometimes, oh, sometimes it seems! Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Mysticism; Nature; Weather; World AN ADIRONDACK WINTER SONG, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Within our adirondack home Last Line: With light the soul doth know. Subject(s): Peace; Seasons; Snow; Weather; Winter AN AWKWARD SITUATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Try as I would I could not rid myself of the bore Last Line: "'certainly, sir,' he replied. 'step this way.'" Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends APRIL WEATHER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, hush, my heart, and take thine ease Last Line: For here is april weather. Subject(s): April; Weather AS TO THE WEATHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I remember, I remember" Last Line: Like what it used to was Subject(s): Weather AT NINETY IN THE SHADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hot weather? Yes; but really not Last Line: Compared with weather twice as hot! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heat; Summer; Weather AUTUM' TIME, by JEWELL BELL MCMURTREY Poem Text First Line: Oh, dere ain' no time lak de autum' Last Line: Nen set fo' de fiah an res'. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Weather; Fall AUTUMN, by JEAN J. EASTLEY Poem Text First Line: The leaves are falling fast / every tree ... Last Line: As the season's autumn's call. Subject(s): Weather AUTUMN, by WILL H. SKALING Poem Text First Line: On distant hills, maples glow Last Line: Wild geese flying by. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Weather; Wind; Fall AUTUMN ALMANAC, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today there's supposed to be a break Subject(s): Weather AUTUMN WIND, by ALFRED D. BUTTS Poem Text First Line: Break, o wind! / break against the trees Last Line: Kick up your heels and run away! Subject(s): Autumn; Dust; Seasons; Weather; Wind; Fall BAD WEATHER HUNTING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Not even the words I put together balanced perfectly on the tip of my tongue Last Line: Hunting song ready %useless Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunting; Native Americans; Weather BALLADE OF MID-WINTER NIGHTS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: An icy wind sweeps up the dim-lit street Last Line: Our trees stand starkly nude upon the lawn. Subject(s): Frost; Weather; Winter BIRD SONG IN BLIZZARD, by TERENCE MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: He wanted to walk the small field Last Line: World spinning out of control Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Storms; Weather BLACK ROOT IN RAINY WEATHER, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the stiff twig up there Last Line: For that rare, random descent Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Sky; Weather BLACKOUT, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Bill the hurricane is standing on my roof Last Line: But this black wall of water, this ocean %tipped on its side Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Hurricanes; Nature; Rain; Weather BLIZZARD ROPE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I have not forgotten Last Line: Go where you will Subject(s): Aging; Storms; Weather BRANKO, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I see my father climbing onto the wheel of a buzz saw Last Line: Tsar says: 'pogrom! Cut the germans' ears off and slaughter them Subject(s): Fog; Weather BROKEN EGG SUNSET, by MELISSA LAMBERTON Poem Source First Line: I've never seen the sky this color Last Line: Dying day, minus the red %chili pepper sun Subject(s): Evening; Time; Weather BROKEN SONNET, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May the weather next week be good to us Subject(s): Weather; Birds CANDLEMAS (FEBRUARY 2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If candlemas day be fair and bright Last Line: Winter is gone and will not come again Subject(s): Weather CAPE DREAD, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For those who come after, that is how we named it Last Line: But delectable, at least at that season Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Shipwrecks; Storms; Weather; Wind CARELESS, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring gave me a friend, and a true,true love Last Line: And none the worse am I. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends CESSNA OR BEECHCRAFT OR PIPER, by MARK DEFOE Poem Source First Line: A fleck in the sky's eye, an insistent Last Line: As soon as it clears, as soon as it clears Subject(s): Weather CHANT OF THE SPRING RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Rain like the rustling of fine garments Last Line: "and this is life and its mystery!" Subject(s): Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Rain; Spring; Weather CHILDREN'S SONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes wind and sometimes rain Last Line: If things will always alter so. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Children; Weather; Childhood CHINOISERIE, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A cloud of shivering silver Last Line: The sky is a glowing poppy, all unfurled. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Clouds; Weather; Wind CLIMATIC, by JEAN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The soft breeze caresses the epidermis Last Line: Until the breeze is no more! Subject(s): Weather; Wind CLIMATIC SORCERY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When frost's all on our winder, an' the snow's Last Line: Ner his mustache ain't white, ner he ain't old. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Milk; Summer; Weather; Milkmen; Milkmaids CLIMATOLOGY, by PHILLIP FOSS Poem Source First Line: The forest roars, recedes Last Line: The distant roar is an approaching black wall of hail Subject(s): Nature; Weather CLOUDS, by LINCOLN COLCORD Poem Text First Line: The clouds rise over the high mountains Last Line: I should not have looked away. Subject(s): Clouds; Nature; Weather CLOUDS, by LAURIE J. LAMON Poem Source First Line: On the news, a man named mark explains Last Line: Without hunger, without grieving, without body Subject(s): Change; Clouds; Family Life; Weather COMING OF DAWN, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thin silver cloud-veils hide the moon Last Line: The darkness fall, Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Weather COOK COUNTY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The northeast wind was the wind off the lake Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Weather Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Wind COOK COUNTY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The northeast wind was the wind off the lake Last Line: And snow on the sand where in summer the water was... Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Weathe Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Wind CORNISH WEATHER RHYME (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mist from the hill %brings water for the mill Last Line: Mist from the sea %brings fine weather for me Subject(s): Weather CORNISH WEATHER RHYME (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the mist comes from the hill %then good weather it doth spill Last Line: When the mist comes from the sea %then good weather it will be Subject(s): Weather CORNISH WEATHER RHYME (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A rainbow in the morn, %put your head in the corn Last Line: A rainbow in the eve, %put your head in the sheave Subject(s): Weather COUNTRY LORE: WIND AND WEATHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sou'west blows the cloud together Last Line: Every cloud is in his train Subject(s): Weather DAWNS OF MOGUER, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The silver poplars Last Line: The baffled moon Subject(s): Clouds; Storms; Weather DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Every sort of day together Last Line: In sunny or in windy weather. Subject(s): Calendars; January; Seasons; Time; Weather DEAD CENTER, by MICHAEL CAREY Poem Source First Line: He didn't know why he did it, he just did. There were seven tornadoes Last Line: Grass and a fading terror and the rush of blood in the urge to be lifted Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Weather; Wind DEPARTURE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, why are you shining so bright, big sun Last Line: And your smile is the sun in my sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Love; Weather DISAPPOINTMENT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I said I had a friend Last Line: I have a friend! Subject(s): Friendship; Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends DOG WEATHER, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earlier, everyone was in knee boots, collars up Last Line: I can be discounted now almost anywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Weather DOWN TO THE DOGS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon it rains as never before; and I Last Line: Don't feel like staying alive, heart Subject(s): Peru; Rain; Tears; Weather DREGS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon it rains, as never before; and I don't Last Line: This afternoon it rains, it pours. And I don't %want to live, heart! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Rain; Tears; Weather DRY GHAZAL, by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: Dry lightning struck the parched bay tree Last Line: The dry wind turned. It rained. It rains. It's raining Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Weather EXULTATION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain surpasses itself. It has gone beyond itself to the contours of a Last Line: To exult at the brilliant fulfillment of a summer day Subject(s): Rain; Seasons; Summer; Weather EYE REFLECTING THE GOLD OF FALL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Silver is the ruby's faded glare Last Line: Banging like grain like the door against ice air Subject(s): Autumn; Cosmology; Seasons; Travel; Weather FAIR WEATHER AND FOUL, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak nought, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold Last Line: And the tuneful woe hath found thee, over land and over sea. Subject(s): Weather FAIR-WEATHER FRIEND, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I mourned to see thee fall Last Line: Where'er they turn, fair-weather friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Friends, Fair-weather FALSE FRIENDS-LIKE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was still a boy, an' mother's pride Last Line: An' thank en, I do veel a little shy. Subject(s): Distrust; Friendship - False Friends; Practical Jokes; Fair Weather Friends; Pranks FENCES, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Shall I fast hedge myself within Last Line: Must surely freeze. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Love; Relationships; Fair Weather Friends FOG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see, shore-hugging is neither surety Last Line: Or founder soon, we cannot be saved here Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Clouds; Fog; Weather FORECAST FOR THE PRESENT, by CHRIS SEMANSKY Poem Source First Line: The weatherman was wrong again Last Line: Like the last good train %running, the one we've learned %tocount on, the one we've yet to miss Variant Title(s): Present Forecas Subject(s): Weather FORECASTING AT STONEWALL CAFE, by BRIAN HENRY Poem Source First Line: When I said clear skies I found slashed tires Last Line: I keep my glass covered, ready for anything Subject(s): Weather FOUNDATIONS: I. WEATHER REPORT, by NICK BARRETT Poem Source First Line: I loved it when we abondoned what we knew Last Line: Night, always, less of the world rearranged than we hoped Subject(s): Night; Smells; Weather FOUR WINDS, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The south wind brings wet weather Last Line: Old rhyme. Variant Title(s): Proverbial Weather Rhymes;the Winds Subject(s): Weather; Wind FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However lonely we were before / becomes unclear Last Line: By setting-free the soil Subject(s): Farm Life; Heat; Middle West; Oklahoma; Summer; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States FRIAR-BACON: LOVE-SUPPLANTER, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Edward, prince of wales. / lacy, earl of lincoln Last Line: Is not of force to bury thoughts of friends.... Subject(s): Betrayal; Courtship; Friendship - False Friends; Hearts; Love; Fair Weather Friends FRIEND AND FOE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Say, who is here? A foe? - a friend? Last Line: Help in a hand that cannot reach. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends FRIENDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard to know who are your friends, so Last Line: As through this woozy world he wends. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends FRIENDS, by BEA MYERS Poem Text First Line: Some are true / others are not Last Line: Or what you've got. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends GHAZAL FROM THE DROWNED CITY: LINES WRITTEN UNDER THE GILT AND ...., by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: I set myself adrift under the piecemeal, puzzled Last Line: Who can keep strict account of all the tides have taken and given %these days? Subject(s): Cities; Drowning; Water; Weather GIVE THANKS FOR RAIN, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: Give thanks for rain when clouds extend Last Line: Give thanks for rain. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: AUGUST, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: God's peace and the moon on the meadow's dead clover Last Line: With the mists and the moon and the weathergod's weather. Subject(s): Prairies; Summer; Weather; Plains GOD'S WEATHER: DECEMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The dusk of the evening, with winter stars growing Last Line: We wait with the stars thro' his weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Weather; Winter GOD'S WEATHER: FEBRUARY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The hid sun strikes red thro' the low eaves' slow dripping Last Line: God's breath in the night and his weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Months; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: JANUARY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Up the whitening blue, as the day-star grows dimmer Last Line: Whip out a mad peal to just weathergod's weather. Subject(s): Months; Snow; Time; Weather; Winter GOD'S WEATHER: JULY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The heavy shade bends to tall clover and grasses Last Line: Growing, grateful for grace of hot weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Months; Summer; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: JUNE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: In the west pile the stormclouds, and bluegrass and roses Last Line: Beaten prone in the wet fragrant weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Months; Storms; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: MARCH, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: A wild whir of wings thro' the woodland's browns hieing Last Line: Blow on thro' the woods and the weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Harvest; Months; Spring; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: NOVEMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: But bleak blows the wind from the northeast; in drifting Last Line: Wells out with the wind and the weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Months; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: OCTOBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The cold late rain drips from the low clouds close palling Last Line: The haze on the home hill and weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Cold; Months; Summer; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: SEPTEMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: All gold! Down the hillside peep clumped daisies golden Last Line: Sends a cheer down the year to just weathergod's weather. Subject(s): Autumn; Months; Seasons; September; Weather; Fall GRAY WEATHER, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true that, older than man and ages to outlast him, the pacific surf Last Line: To the bone, the careless white bone, the excellence Subject(s): Disappointment; Aging; Weather HALCYON WEATHER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the halcyon weather Last Line: Under the open sky! Subject(s): Contentment; Weather HARD WEATHER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bursts from a rending east in flaws Last Line: The station for the flight of soul. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Nature; Weather; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HELSINKI WINDOW, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Go out into brightened Subject(s): Weather; Helsinki, Finland HERE IS MUSIC: MY LORDS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: My lords of life and death, if, suppliant, I Last Line: Had ta'en, fulfill'd: who, too, had lost false friends for truth. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends HIS OWN WEATHER, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's fur warms quickly; Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Weather HOARFROST AND FOG, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I walk six blocks to the park. Last Line: The snow is nearly up to her knees. %I breathe, and I breathe, and I breathe. Subject(s): Snow; Weather; Winter HOBOKEN, 1825, by ROBERT STEVENSON COFFIN Poem Text First Line: To the dark, bloody shore of hoboken is gliding Last Line: The flowers of the nightshade his temples around. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Hoboken, New Jersey; Fair Weather Friends HOW TO FORETELL A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Rain always follows the cattle Subject(s): Weather HURRICANE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At twilight / the leaves of palmettos screeching like cicadas Last Line: The ox beetle gores up through blown sand. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Loss; Weather HYDROGRAPHIC REPORT, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Off portland: wind east, visibility eight Subject(s): Sea; Weather I OFTEN THINK, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I often think of life's dark days Last Line: When the great war was through. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends IMPRESSIONS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: The virent salt-marsh tide is high to-night Last Line: Sh! Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Tides; Weather; Ocean IN SUMMER WHEN THE VALES ARE CLEAR, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Ye, everlasting summits, do abide in sun! Subject(s): Weather; Alps; Valleys IT SNOWS AND IT BLOWS, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It snows and it blows, it is cold, stormy / weather Last Line: For it snows, etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Sky; Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter LANCASHIRE WEATHER RHYMES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If red the sun begins his race Last Line: When pendle wears its woolly cap, %the farmers all may take a nap Subject(s): Weather LE TEMPS A LAISSIE, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The weather's cast away its cloak Last Line: Of wind and rain and cold Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Weather LEAVING BUFFALO, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Others, many others, must have known Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Farewell; Weather; Parting LECTURE ON HAPPINESS, by JEFF MOCK Poem Source First Line: The sun the old woman said Last Line: It's cloudy, and so very fine Subject(s): Reason; Weather LIFE ON THE LAKES: STORM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: A chill creeps over the waters wide Last Line: The hurt call sounds four! Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Storms; Weather; Lightning Rods LILACS, by ROSE TILLOTSON Poem Text First Line: A friend had failed me in some little thing Last Line: With purple lilacs, drenched in spring-sweet rain. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends LINES ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A day of creaks and croaking! Ice in the skylight, Last Line: The branches shake, and a half-eaten apple plops %into the kindling pile: if only you were here. Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Winter LOCAL FORECAST, by JOHN KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The star dogs the moon Last Line: Before rain dampens the effect Subject(s): Weather LOW BAROMETER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The south-wind strengthens to a gale Last Line: The baleful phantoms underground. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Weather MARCH, by INDIA HUNT Poem Text First Line: Alone upon the hilltop Last Line: To the comrade heart of me! Subject(s): Solitude; Weather; Wind; Loneliness MATTHEW'S SONG, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Every time the season changes %we will have a party Last Line: We slide downhill into %summer Subject(s): Children; Seasons; Singing And Singers; Weather MAY RAIN, by ELTON GLASER Poem Source First Line: Evening at morning. Slow drip Last Line: And keeps the pressure on Subject(s): Rain; Weather MAY SNOW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: May is a blue and gold and green Last Line: You're just petals from the tree! Subject(s): May (month); Snow; Weather MERMILL RD., MILTON CENTER, by MARK DALEY Poem Source First Line: We're watered down, this morning light diffuse Last Line: Wearing down like weather does a rock Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Storms; Weather; Wind METEOROLOGY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart is such a big awkward girl Last Line: Even the best days Subject(s): Evil; Gasoline; Good; Weather; Windows; Wyoming MONEY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had money, money, o! Last Line: My friends are real, though very few. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Money; Fair Weather Friends MOTEL VIEW, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is conceivable in fact that waves Subject(s): Sea; Weather; Cape Ann, Massachusetts; Ocean MOUNT KEARSARGE SHINES..., by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mount kearsarge shines with ice; from hemlock branches Last Line: For the government of two Subject(s): Togetherness; Weather MY DOG, by WILLIAM H. RUMSEY Poem Text First Line: Through glad days and sad days Last Line: Just so we are together. Subject(s): Friends, Fair-weather MY DWELLING, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: I'll build my cabin in the pass Last Line: To watch the clouds sail by. Subject(s): Clouds; Weather; Wind NATURE RHYMES: 6. WEATHER RHYME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When juana wears her misty shawl Last Line: Full well we know that rain will fall Subject(s): Mountains;weather; Hills;downs (great Britain) NEW YEAR'S EVE WEATHER RHYME, SAID TO BE FROM SCOTLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If new year's eve night-wind blow south Last Line: If north-east, flee it man and brute Subject(s): Weather NIEGE FONDANT, by BARBARA GUEST Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Seen on the whimpering screen the white ruff a tongue wags out numbered Subject(s): Weather; Language; Words; Vocabulary NINETEENTH-CENTURY VILLAGE RHYME ON WEATHER; BEDFORDSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Well, duncombe, how will be the weather? Last Line: So, sir, when doctors disagree, %who's to decide it - you orme? Subject(s): Weather NINETY-NINE IN THE SHADE, by ROSSITER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! Last Line: And deepens the chill of its dark-running wave. Subject(s): Cold; Heat; Weather NOON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring: despondency / fall: despair Last Line: Of the barn. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Weather NOTHING IS REAL IN OCTOBER, by CAROL B. DECANIO Poem Source First Line: The weather itself %undecided Last Line: Waiting for november %to begin Subject(s): October; Seasons; Weather NOVEMBER AND THE WINDS ARE COMING FROM CANADA, by BOB VANCE Poem Source First Line: In the rude gloaming Last Line: My friend, %it is further than we can see Subject(s): Weather; Winter NOVEMBER SKIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Than these november skies Last Line: Faint purple flushes of the unvanquished sun. Subject(s): November; Rain; Weather OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 25. ROMAN GLASSWARE PRESERVED IN THE ASHMOLEAN, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair crystal cups are dug from earth's old crust Last Line: Brave with faint memories, rich in rainbow-rust. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends ODES 1, 9. VIDES UT ALTA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep snow! Soracte stands solid under it Last Line: Or from a finger an easy forfeit. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter OEDIPAL STRIVINGS, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dinosaur egg opens in a lab Subject(s): Jews; Ancestors & Ancestry; Weather; Judaism; Heritage; Heredity OH IT'S PRETTY WINDY OUTSIDE, by LARRY EIGNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As the clouds move Subject(s): Weather OH, THE WEATHER, THE WEATHER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And calm drastic winds of change Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; Grief; Loss; Weather OLD NICK IN SOREL, by STANDISH HAYES O'GRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old nick took a fancy, as many men tell Last Line: Will winter in hell and be here in the summer. Subject(s): Canada; Christmas; Santa Claus; Weather; Winter; Canadians; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint ON BRUTUS, AN ODE: HEAVY GOING, by JOHN SHEFFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From mighty caesar, and his boundless grace Last Line: And if, alas, he fail'd, 'twas only by mistake. Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of Subject(s): Brutus (marcus Junius Brutus); Errors; Friendship - False Friends; Ingratitude; Mistakes; Fallacies; Fair Weather Friends; Ungratefulness ON PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM THE ELEMENTS, by CHARLES L. GROVE Poem Source First Line: Protecting yourself from the elements %is fairly elementary Last Line: Don't go out in yellow rain, %and don't eat yellow snow Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Weather ON THE 16TH DECEMBER, BEING AS FINE AS MAY-DAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unlike december's frown this gladsome day Last Line: For gayer views, and happy could I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): December; Weather ON THE DARK, STILL, DRY, WARM WEATHER ... IN WINTER MONTHS, by GILBERT WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The imprisoned winds slumber within their caves Last Line: And float the deluged paths and miry fields. Subject(s): Air; Snow; Weather; Wind; Winter ONE OF WEATHER'S BEST LIES, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Source First Line: In fog these silos become a cathedral, backlit Last Line: Fog rants, and my knees are dust and the past stone Subject(s): Fog; Weather OXFORDSHIRE WEATHER-ALMANAC VERSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Janiver %freeze the pot by the fire Last Line: But a swarm in july %is not worth a fly Subject(s): Weather POWER FAILURE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking the shore, augustine hoped to comprehend Last Line: The mist will rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Beachcombers; Seashore; Weather; Beach; Coast; Shore PROMENADES AND INTERIORS, SELECTION, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: I am writing near the lamp. It's fine weather. Pleasant stillness Last Line: Mother, blessèd among all women may you be! Subject(s): Cold; Memory; October; Weather; Writing & Writers PUSSY WILLOW DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Birds and pussies in a tree Last Line: In the shining weather. Subject(s): April; Birds; Children; Friendship; Play; Spring; Weather; Willow Trees; Childhood RAIN, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: By the two windows before me, the two Last Line: Tempests a libation of this drop of ink Subject(s): Rain; Weather RAIN, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: There are so many kinds of rain Last Line: And leaving to exalt or jade. Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Water; Weather RAIN, by RANDALL MANN Poem Source First Line: This is the rain Last Line: The ground, lied god, in the beginning Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Water; Weather RAIN, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The april rain falls quietly, / with soft caress for bush and tree Last Line: December rain, december rain. Subject(s): Rain; Seasons; Spring; Water; Weather RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It hain't no use to grumble and complane Last Line: W'y, rain's my choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Wet Weather Talk Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Rain; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers RAIN AND SUNSHINE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was out in the country Last Line: And sunshine of home! Subject(s): Country Life; Weather RAINFALL, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the west, where darkling storm-clouds float Last Line: The loud, crisp whiteness of the nearing rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Rain; Weather REPETITION OF WORDS AND WEATHER, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A basket of dirty clothes Subject(s): Words; Weather; Washerwomen; Poetry & Poets REVIEW, by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: The magic month of june, when I was born Last Line: Comes in the daytime, while we are walking Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Seasons; Weather RIFFS AND RECIPROCITIES REDUX: WEATHER, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It had its own channel now, like rock music. But it was more like an Last Line: Taken a turn for the better or the worse Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Television; Weather SEAWEED WEATHER, by GARDNER MCFALL Poem Source First Line: For three days we've been enveloped by rain Last Line: In seaweed weather, to ride the dark squall out Subject(s): Rain; Weather SEPTEMBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Golden in the garden Last Line: September's going by! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Weather; Fall SIGNS OF RAIN [OR, FOUL WEATHER], by EDWARD JENNER Poem Text First Line: The hollow winds begin to blow Last Line: 40 our jaunt must be put off to-morrow. Subject(s): Mnemonics; Nature; Rain; Weather SNOW, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once with my scarf knotted over my mouth Last Line: The son! Before the weather changes. Subject(s): Cold; Fathers & Sons; Relationships; Snow; Weather SNOWSTORM IN THE DUSK, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great dabs of gray Last Line: And there's a moaning, moaning, in the gloom. Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter SO GOOD, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing to me Subject(s): Weather; Birds; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers SOLAR, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: On a gray day, when the sun Last Line: I have to make all the difference Subject(s): Sun; Weather SOMETHING TOLD THE WILD GEESE, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Summer sun was on their wings, %winter in their cry Subject(s): Geese; Weather SONG ON THE WAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Any way the old world goes Last Line: Singin' all together! Subject(s): Weather SONG TO BRING FAIR WEATHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you, whose day it is, make it beautiful" Last Line: So it will be beautiful Subject(s): Weather SONNET: 18. AN EVENING IN NOVEMBER, WHICH HAD BEEN STORMY ..., by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ceas'd is the rain; but heavy drops yet fall Last Line: The vale's blue rills, and glitter as they flow! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Storms; Weather SONNET: 19. TO --, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, false friend! -- our scenes of kindness close! Last Line: Flatter with weak regret a broken vow! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends SONNETS FOR FIVE SEASONS: COMPLAINT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god,' they write, 'that was a selfish winter Subject(s): Seasons; Weather; God SONNETS FOR FIVE SEASONS: STASIS, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the leaves change, light transforms these lucid Subject(s): August; September; Weather SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And is this august weather? Nay, not so Last Line: Cheer up there can be nothing worse to mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): August; Rain; Weather SONNETS: A BROKEN FRIENDSHIP, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If this be friendship-that one broken hour Last Line: The sinews that can help us to rebuild! Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends SPRING LAUGHS, by KATIE F. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Trim little towns in waiting Last Line: The little breezes sing. Subject(s): Laughter; Spring; Towns; Weather ST. SWITHIN (JULY 15), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "st. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain" Last Line: For forty days 'twill rain nae mair Variant Title(s): St. Swithin's Day Subject(s): Weather STEADY WEATHER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The year is good that paces quietly Last Line: The heart of life laid open to the sun. Subject(s): Weather STORM POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is eating Last Line: For you %let the windteeth break Subject(s): Storms; Weather; Wind STRANGE THAT SO MANY FICKLE GODS, AS FICKLE AS THE WEATHER, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Throughout dame natures provinces should always pull together Subject(s): Nature; Weather SUNRISE WITH SEA MONSTER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Well, we either do it or we don't, as the pigeon said to the loaf Last Line: But no diminishment, as in 'fancy' and 'open fifths' and environmental sweepstakes' Subject(s): Clouds; Environment; Sea Monsters; Storms; Weather SWEET WEATHER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now blow the daffodils on slender stalks Last Line: Sounds in that song the thrush sends through the rain. Subject(s): Weather TEMPEST AND THE CALM, by JUAN DE ARGUIJO Poem Source First Line: Sudden I saw the ruddy sun to turn Last Line: Wherein the image of my fortune lies Subject(s): Storms; Thunder; Weather TEMPEST NIGHT, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Wind in the void, where the white stars shake Last Line: And the night hangs heavily years and years? Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Ocean THE CHANGING SEASON, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Golden sunlight floods the earth Last Line: Interpreting god's moods. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Seasons; Weather; World THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind. Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE COMET, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eye of the demon on albion was turned Last Line: The fire-brand of yamen shall dazzle in vain. Subject(s): Anger; Devil; England; Envy; Floods; Weather; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; English THE FARMER WHO MADE HIS OWN WEATHER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, lafontaine writes Last Line: And deemed himself more wise than jove. Subject(s): Weather THE FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, the year's decline, midst storms and floods Subject(s): Farm Life; Autumn; Weather; Disappointment; Agriculture; Farmers; Fall THE FEATHER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder dost thou sleep at night Last Line: Friend of mine, my enemy. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Friendship - False Friends; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Fair Weather Friends THE FOG, by JACK GREENBERG Poem Text First Line: The fog is thick tonight Last Line: For prayer and rest ... Subject(s): Fog; Love; Weather; Haze THE FOG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies dim and cold on the face of the mould Last Line: And the words die away in my song. Subject(s): Death; Fog; Funerals; Nature; Weather; Dead, The; Haze; Burials THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: LEBID, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone are they the lost camps, light flittings, long so Last Line: Woe be to all false friends! Woe to the envious! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Enemies; Fights; Friendship - False Friends; War; Fair Weather Friends THE GYPSY AND THE TOWNSMAN, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasant enough in the seed time Last Line: There than here in the saddest month of the weariest year. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Gypsies; Towns; Weather; Gipsies THE LIFE OF TOWNS: ONE-MAN TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's magritte weather today said max Last Line: Ernst knocking his head on a boulder Subject(s): Weather THE LITTLE CLOUD COMES DOWN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The little spot of earth below Last Line: But the earth was as glad as the curly cloud! Subject(s): April; Clouds; Weather; Wind THE MISTAKEN ANEMONETER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little anemometer Last Line: And ceased to be like a man. Subject(s): Weather THE MOON IS SINKING - THE TEMPESTUOUS WEATHER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Jes' so Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Weather THE MOONLIGHT STORM, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely night! Serenely clear the sky Last Line: For I'm akin to itour spirits are the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Storms; Weather THE NEWS AND THE WEATHER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene night cold november Last Line: Quarrelling hair greyer almost / sixty Subject(s): News; November; Weather THE POISONED ARROW, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All wounded sore he lay upon my path Last Line: Within his hand he held a bow unstrung. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Murder; Fair Weather Friends THE RAINBOW, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If things were worse, this cursed rain Subject(s): Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730); Religion; Weather; Theology THE SEASONS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: W'en de leaves begin to fall Last Line: Mek it hard to tell which time o' year am bes'. Subject(s): Seasons; Time; Weather THE SECRET OF IT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where does the clerk of the weather store Last Line: "and open the wrong heart-room." Subject(s): Weather THE SOU'WESTER (BLOWING OVER THE OVERTON HILLS, CHESHIRE), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Blustering, boisterous wind, that bloweth over the / bracken Last Line: I am the breath of a spirit that wandereth ever free!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forests; Weather; Wind; Woods THE SPRING RACE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Said the wee yellow crocus with hurrying / feet Last Line: How the old places looked and what beautiful weather! Subject(s): April; Spring; Weather THE STORM, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The sun sank in a sheer abyss of cloud Last Line: Upon the fallen tree, shout as they play. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Lightning Rods THE SUN OF DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With morning's sun ascending Last Line: As day yields to the night. Subject(s): Day; Light; Lightning; Sun; Weather; Lightning Rods THE THUNDER STORM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Above the heavens are flaming Last Line: I would know that thou art near. Subject(s): Earth; Lightning; Storms; Weather; World; Lightning Rods THE TIMES ATLAS; FOR MY MENTOR, LONG DEAD, RICHARD HALLIBURTON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today was the coldest day in the history Last Line: That might leave so many dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Halliburton, Richard (1900-1939); Maps; Sea Voyages; Weather THE WEATHER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live for myself Last Line: Turned up my collar Subject(s): Weather THE WEATHER, by KATHERINE SHEPARD Poem Text First Line: I need brutal unrhythmical words to say this Last Line: What does the weather mean to such as we! Subject(s): Weather THE WEATHER MAN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, tell us of the day Last Line: "less I put my rubbers on." Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Weather; Childhood THE WEATHER SHIFTS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unemployed. I recollect setting a plumb Last Line: Sings, somewhere, out in the junipers. Subject(s): January; Weather THE WEATHER-PROPHET; A FABLE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What can be the matter with the thermometer? Last Line: Thinks his own mood is the mind of humanity. Subject(s): Fables; Prophecy & Prophets; Weather; Allegories THE WEATHER-SPIRIT, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice in the roaring pine-wood Last Line: Is calling, calling, to me. Subject(s): Weather THE WIND, by LOUIS MERCIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All last night and all day long Last Line: He moves off. They can hear him in the leaves. Subject(s): Homeless; Storms; Weather; Wind THE WIND IN A FROLIC, by WILLIAM HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind one morning sprang up from sleep Last Line: How little of mischief it had done! Subject(s): Children; Weather; Wind; Childhood THE WOMAN AND THE FLAME, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bit of light that descends the springhead of a gaze Subject(s): Weather THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'LYNTON' WHILE BOUND FOR ASPINWALL, HAVING ON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold Last Line: A day which the survivors will long remember. Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks; Survival; Weather THUNDER, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of strength! To whom in wrath 'tis given Last Line: A higher power beholds the strife of men. Subject(s): Thunder; Weather THUNDERSTORM THE DAY THE WAR ENDED, by JUDY LONGLEY Poem Source First Line: Leaden heat explodes into quicksilver Last Line: Scud overhead like returning ships Subject(s): War; Weather TO A FALSE FRIEND, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our hands have met, but not our hearts Last Line: I would our hands had never met! Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends TO H.B.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Oh, life was utterly good that night Last Line: And an hour of understanding! Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Weather; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THE WIND CHANTS WELL TO-DAY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind chants well over the world to-day Last Line: And am as invisible as you. Subject(s): Weather; Wind TREES IN AUTUMN, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: --when the summer's gone out of them Last Line: Defenseless. Now %we see through them Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Weather TROPICAL MYTH, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain cast its net over the forest Last Line: That is how fireflies were born Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Weather TWO LETTERS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My dearest friend charles:-- Last Line: So be happy with your bertha hall. Subject(s): Friends, Fair-weather; Friendship; Letters TWO WOMEN MEET, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They do not care about each other, these two Last Line: She hardly touched the food. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends UBI SUNT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Sometime near dawn the fog moved Last Line: Now, now, now, they all call out Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature; November; Weather; West (u.s.) UNDER GREAT LIGHT FLOODED CLOUDS, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The horse is sticky. If you touch it, it sticks to your hands like chewing Last Line: I mount, and am away Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Weather UNDINE: UNDINE'S SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Gay are we and without care Last Line: Weave their spell in the rose-lit dusk. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Calm; Seasons; Spring; Weather; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility VISIONS IN VERSE: 4. CONTENT, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man is deceiv'd by outward show Last Line: And inconsistent dreams of day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Friendship - False Friends; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Fair Weather Friends VOICE WAYS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some things are never clear. Last Line: So we won't say nothing is clear Subject(s): Weather WATCHING THE WEATHER, by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH Poem Source First Line: This is not the first line I was advised to write Last Line: Viera and that line you told me to put first... Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Weather WEATHER, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: All week I moved through weather Last Line: Songbirds given to fear, %less given, chittering Subject(s): Solitude; Weather WEATHER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live for myself Last Line: I bend my head %turned up my collar Subject(s): Weather WEATHER, by HETTIE JONES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My folder of poems Last Line: Are you breathing, are you lucky enough Subject(s): Weather WEATHER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Church steeple through gray mist Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Pictures; Shadows; Weather WEATHER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Church steeple through gray mist Last Line: Direction then another, day after day Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Shadows; Weather WEATHER, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds travel far and wide Subject(s): Weather WEATHER, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds travel far and wide Last Line: With a passing thought for us Subject(s): Weather WEATHER AND THE SEASONS OF LIFE; A SCOTTISH VERSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: West wind to the bairn Last Line: As she gangs to the kirk %wi' the sun on her side Subject(s): Weather WEATHER BIRD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard to decide whether the weather-swallow Subject(s): Swallows; Weather WEATHER FORECAST, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: A spring shower rushes over the sunken monarchy. Will it ever end? Last Line: Before a line of sturdy soldiers, give an order, and the line will shudder Subject(s): Introspection; Weather WEATHER REPORT, by JACK MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Salt water beats the sky's wing Last Line: The humidity between me and you %and the constellation them Subject(s): Weather WEATHER REPORT: OCTOBER, by MARC HARSHMAN Poem Source First Line: A wall of trees has been erected just here Last Line: From what we have called prediction Subject(s): October; Weather WEATHER RHYME FROM DORSET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mackerel scales and mare's tails Last Line: Make lordly ships to carry low sails Subject(s): Weather WEATHER RHYME FROM SUSSEX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When old hens scratch the ground and clouds have tails Last Line: Tis time for ships at sea to shorten sails Subject(s): Weather WEATHER SIGN, by BERNARD RAYMUND Poem Text First Line: Where wrinkled plain and upland meet Last Line: To run their windy race. Subject(s): Weather WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If bees stay at home / rain will soon come Last Line: Fine will be the day Variant Title(s): Bees;the Prophets Of The Hive Subject(s): Bees;insects;weather; Beekeeping;bugs WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When clouds appear / like rocks and towers Last Line: By frequent showers Subject(s): Weather WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "mackerel sky, mackerel sky / not long wet/and not long dry" Last Line: And not long dry Subject(s): Weather WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A sunshiny shower / won't last half an hour Last Line: Won't last half an hour Variant Title(s): Weather Wisdom Subject(s): Weather WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Rain before seven Last Line: Fine before eleven Subject(s): Weather WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Red sky at night / shepherd's delight Last Line: Shepherd's warning Subject(s): Weather WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If the oak is out before the ash / then we'll only have a splash Last Line: Then we'll surely have a soak Subject(s): Weather WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the dew is on the grass / rain will never come to pass Last Line: Rain will never come to pass Subject(s): Weather WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the clouds are upon the hills / they'll come down by the mills Last Line: They'll come down by the mills Subject(s): Weather WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the wind is in the east / 'tis neither good for man nor beast Last Line: Then 'tis at the very best Subject(s): Weather WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Evening red and morning grey / send the traveller on his way Last Line: Bring the rain upon his head Subject(s): Weather WEATHERMAN TELLS US, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To know where %they're going Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Weather WEATHERS, by CAROLYN KOO Poem Source First Line: By june, the risk of frost is past, but in may Last Line: And blackens the heart of a blossom Subject(s): Seasons; Weather WHAT THE WEATHER DOES, by HAMISH HENDRY Poem Source First Line: The rooks are alive Subject(s): Weather WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES TO WARM, THE BOYS DRIVE SHIRTLESS, by MARY JO BANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their cigarettes wasting to nought Last Line: And trembling, death and the endless expanse Subject(s): Change; Driving & Drivers; Weather WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES TO WARM, THE BOYS DRIVE SHIRTLESS, by MARY JO BANG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their cigarettes wasting to nought Last Line: That is not an event Subject(s): Change; Driving And Drivers; Weather WHITE CITY, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shirtsleeved, walking out into the spring, occasionally Last Line: Forever vanishing between our bodies Subject(s): Desire; Weather; Winter WIND, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pow'r uncontrollable, who hold'st thy sway Last Line: And on the ocean far it slowly dies away. Subject(s): Weather; Wind WIND, by VENO TAUFER Poem Source First Line: From the south you bring rain Last Line: Plague breaaths flower seeds %blow blow Subject(s): Rain; Sailors And Sailing; Storms; Weather; Wind WIND CHILL, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: The voice on the radio is urgent. When you go outside, it says, exposed Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Cold; Radio; Weather; Wind WINDY NIGHTS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever the moon and stars are set Last Line: By he comes back at the gallop again. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 9 Subject(s): Weather; Wind WINTER - PRO AND CON, by O. M. L. DETTY Poem Text First Line: The fir tree snuggles in winter clothes Last Line: Her clothes crumpled up at her feet. Subject(s): Weather WINTER IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When is chicago not too cold or too hot? Last Line: Or at least keep kissing in the doorway Subject(s): Chicago; Cold; Weather; Winter WINTRY WEATHER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter turns the roadway white Last Line: Whose light is as the sheen of stars! Subject(s): Love; Weather; Winter WRITTEN AT WINCHESTER ON TUESSAY THE 15TH JULY 1817, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When winchester races first took their beginning Last Line: The curse upon venta is july in showers Subject(s): Horse Racing; Weather |
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